Americans Are Finally Checking Out on Vacation This Summer (or Trying To)

Americans—notorious for not taking time off—appear to be getting away and even unplugging this summer.

workers struggled with taking vacation time even before Covid-19 upended travel and tourism.

Last year, workers gave up 33% of their vacation time.

In a June survey by executive search firm Korn Ferry , 79% of professionals say they will use more vacation days in 2021, and 46% say they will take a longer vacation than in past years.

Those plans are showing up on company vacation calendars: Employee requests for time off in June were up 16.6% compared with the same month in 2020, and 1% from June 2019, according to human-resources technology firm Zenefits, which tracks requests from workers at roughly 3,000 companies.